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Map: State, Murrieta Unemployment Rate Drops in May

To see May unemployment rates across the state click on towns on the attached map. The light green are the lowest, the dark red, the highest.

Reported by editors Dan Abendschein and Renee Schiavone, with contributions from City News Service:

Unemployment dipped in California in May from 9 percent to 8.6 percent, according to figures released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

In Riverside County, the rate edged down last month on the heels of marginal job growth, state officials reported.

As for Murrieta– the local rate also dropped, from 6.3 percent in April to 6 percent in May.

The county's non-seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in May, based on preliminary estimates, was 9.2 percent, compared to 9.6 percent in April, according to the California Employment Development Department.

The Riverside County rate was 2.6 percentage points below the level of May 2012, when unemployment stood at 11.8 percent.

The civilian labor force last month numbered 933,900 people, with 85,500 out of work, according to EDD data.

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The unincorporated community of Cabazon had the highest unemployment rate countywide, at 23.6 percent, followed by Mecca at 18.7 percent and Homeland at 18.3 percent, according to the EDD.

The combined unemployment rate for Riverside and San Bernardino counties in May was also 9.2 percent, down from 9.6 percent the prior month.

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The state's non-seasonally adjusted rate was 8.1 percent in May- seasonal adjustment accounts for seasonal shifts in labor such as increased construction and agricultural work in spring and summer - only non-seasonally adjusted figures are available for individual cities.

How to Use the Map


You can see how every city in the state fared in May's report, by clicking on it in the above map.  (You may have to zoom out to locate Riverside County)

The blue cities are within 10 percent of the state average, the light green are have unemployment rates at least 50 percent lower than state average, and darker green cities are between.

Conversely, the bright red cities have unemployment rates at least 50 percent higher than state average and the lighter red cities are between.


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